“One could live very well then, by gathering Ginseng to sell,” commented practical Charley.
“Why, yes, you remember old Uncle Baskett, the colored doctor?”
“Yes,” said Margaret. “He cured toothache by hanging a rabbit’s foot about your neck.”
“And fits with a four-leafed clover,” cried Gracie.
“He made his living,” went on papa, “after he was freed, by collecting the roots of Ginseng, Calamus and other medicinal plants, and it was then, too, he gained his almost marvelous knowledge of herbs, becoming famous, even among the white people, for his success in curing certain diseases.”
“I think this leaf and root are accurate,” said the artist presenting the sketch.
“To a ‘T,’” cried the children. “You must go with us every walk we take.”
Sallie Margaret O’Malley.
Gaunt shadows stretch along the hill;